08-08-2024 11:30 via mashable.com

NASA now seriously considering SpaceX for Boeing astronauts' ride home

A pair of U.S. astronauts who test-piloted a new Boeing spaceship in June may not fly home on the craft they rode in on. While Boeing has conducted a variety of tests in space and on the ground to try to better understand problems with its Starliner capsule, now docked at the International Space Station, NASA apparently has been busy making contingency plans for an alternative way to bring Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore, 61, and Sunita "Suni" Williams, 58, back to Earth. NASA official
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